It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The limits of possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
